When I picked up my GX the dealership gave me a black fabric bag with suction cups to keep my ez-pass in. I am used to the strips, anyone familiar with this. Does it work?
never heard of it. Is this a NY thing? I’m in PA…I’m still using the strips
I think all ezpasses are the same, I may be wrong.
I meant the bag thingy. I think the actual transponders are the same.
Ray Catena? They give out free crap like that all the time lol… I trust those strips a heck of a lot more than suction cups personally. Also, the law is really strict in NJ at least about what’s allowed on your windshield. EZ Pass is OK, but I’d be curious as to whether an EZ Pass inside something else would be allowed. Are you sure it’s not one of the lined cases designed to keep it from transmitting when you don’t want to use it?
Yes it was ray catena. But which one??? lol there are like 5 lexus dealers. I just didn’t want to order a new transponder or strips and didn’t want to take them off my old car.
But why would it have suction cups?
Good question, if it’s not foil lined it’s probably good to go. Was it the Edison location? I’m sure it’s probably fine if it’s not lined with anything that looks like it would interfere, but the strips are pretty cheap and easy to order.
Wasn’t Edison, and the car was actually a trade from another dealer. I just put it up because I needed an ez-pass and didn’t want to hold it every time.
My goal in life is to get an orange EZ Pass somehow and never pay another toll again.
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You might be surprised what will block those things. It took me the whole drive from NY to WI and back to figure out why mine wouldn’t work.
Turns out the heated windshield in my new car was blocking it so I have to hold it out the sunroof.
My cousin has the s550, which has a similar problem, where the ez-pass won’t work inside the car. He bought some ez-pass transponder that he put ontop of his license plate. Don’t know all of the specifics but that could help.
They offer two. Inside the car on the windshield and a special license plate bracket which I think has special screws to deter theft. That bracket is legally the only license plate bracket you can have in New Jersey.
Interesting, I didn’t know that was an option. My transponder came from the WI/IL end of the toll network, so I guess I’ll have to check back there.
But that would definitely make me feel like less of a fool, dangling the thingy out the window of my Jag
The reason it doesn’t work on certain cars is because of the actual glass used. The transponders that stick to the windshield are utilizing the fact there is lead and other metals in the glass so it will act as an antenna. Certain cars use Low-lead glass, it cost more than standard glass but inhibits transponders. I wish I didn’t know this but it seems every community is gated in Florida and in mine we had to replace the gate because Irma destroyed half of it. So we got one with a bar code reader instead of transponder.